"Eurozone growth is faltering faster than we had expected," says HSBC.

Until now, Europe has coped with a war in Syria on its Southern border, Russian incursion into Ukraine, the Greek crisis, Britain voting to leave the EU, and Turkey falling off a cliff. But the Italian debt crisis and Trump’s global war on trade might be the final straws.

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